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cc-by-nc-nd (c)  Alvarez-Gonzalez, Aaron, 2023
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Emotional Phenomenology: A New Puzzle

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Emotions are taken by some authors as a kind of mental state epistemically akin to perception. However, unlike perceptual phenomenology, which allows being treated dogmatically, emotional phenomenology is puzzling in the following respect. When you feel an emotion, you feel an urge to act, you feel, among other things, your body’s action readiness. On the other hand, at least sometimes, you are aware that an emotion by itself is not a sufficient reason to justify an evaluative judgment and/ or an action, not even prima facie. How can a single mental state, emotion, seem to be dogmatic and hypothetic at the same time? It seems that emotions alone fall short of the justifying role in which their guiding role would be grounded. If this is true, then emotional experience cannot be epistemically akin to perception. Unless we are willing to claim that emotions cause action blindly (i.e., not rationally), we need an account of the distinctive epistemic role of emotional experience that renders its guidance role rational. In this paper I outline this new problem and its consequences for the metaphysics and epistemology of emotional experience. I also try to offer the sketch of a plausible solution

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ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ, Aarón. Emotional Phenomenology: A New Puzzle. _Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences_. 2023. [consulta: 29 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1568-7759. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217558]

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